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8 Mistakes that happen while generating Drug Rehab Leads

Are you making these drug rehab marketing mistakes? Here are smart, simple and executable ways to rectify them.

There are a lot of people out there that need your help to overcome their substance abuse addiction. In 2015, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) reported nearly 21 million Americans beyond the age of 12 had a substance abuse problem. The SAMHSA report (updated for 2015) also showed only about 11% of this number gets help at addiction treatment centers. With prudent drug rehab marketing, you can reach this target audience and offer your addiction treatment solutions.

But many drug rehab lead generation efforts lack the essentials of getting sensible ROI (if any). Here are just eight mistakes you do not want to commit in your drug rehab marketing campaign to boost business and get ahead of the competition.

1. Lack of USP for Your Brand

With over 14,000 drug and alcohol addiction treatment centers in the US alone, you need to stand out from the crowd with a unique selling proposition if you are to attract and earn more business. Do you have a specialty?

For example, are you:

A drug rehab center for only men or women?

A detox center alone or include drug addiction recovery treatment

With about 50% of substance abuse victims suffering from a mental disorder or have developed one, do you also offer additional mental health treatment and recovery?

2. The absence of a Website (To Begin With)

HubSpot found 97% of all searches online are made with an intention to find local businesses. Over 68% of searchers checked out a business’s official website before calling in.

An attractive, easy to navigate, informational, and responsive website serves as the basis for any sound digital marketing campaign for a drug rehab center. If you do not have a website, you miss the online visibility and landing platform you need to earn trust, organic leads, and more customers.

3. Drug Rehab Leads

Generating organic addiction treatment center leads can be tough, but buying untargeted and unqualified rehab leads can be even more costly, time-wasting, and destructive to your brand reputation.

4. Online Presence Lacks Prominence

Maybe you have a website, blog and several social media accounts registered. But you do not provide high-quality, useful, and evergreen content on a consistent basis. You’ll want to help your target audience understand how you can help them, why you are qualified to help them, and that you actually care about helping them get their life or their loved ones lives back on track.

5. Inadequate Drug Rehab Marketing Strategy

Do you have a solid drug rehab marketing plan?

Are you aware of the opportunities available in multi-channel marketing for rehab lead generation? A solid plan goes into detail about what you want to achieve as an addiction treatment center, your most relevant and targeting drug rehab marketing channels, branding plan, and how to implement the entire plan. You can as well get help nailing the details from a professional drug rehab marketing agency or service.

6. Lacking Drug Rehab Marketing Budget

Many treatment centers do not have a defined marketing budget for their drug rehab. But you do not have to have more than $10,000 to start setting a marketing budget aside. You can start at whatever financial situation you are now with digital marketing, which is comparatively cheaper to traditional methods such as TV and print media advertising—yet offers higher returns.

7. Not on GMB

Even the best online business directories offer free listings to any interested business. Surprisingly, most businesses’ online directory listings are unclaimed. Yet showing up in a Google My Business (GMB) spot can rank your rehab center high up on local search results, increasing the number of quality leads visiting your website, making contact, and converting to paying customers.

Email marketing and content marketing offer two of the most affordable, profitable and simple rehab marketing channels for attracting targeted, high-quality, and conversion-ready customers. Need help with all these and more?

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